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[nevaehtyler]

welp this popped on my dash just at the right time

[tanae-briana-deactivated2018010]

lmaoooo shadyyy

[catchymemes]

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[hank0331]

I’ll repost this whenever I see it on my dashboard.

[nightowlpatrol]

fuck…

[jellyfishdirigible]

So, one thing you can do is use Firefox instead of Chrome. Another thing you can do is use duck duck go instead of google search. In fact you know what let me get on desktop and make a proper reply, give me about an hour and I’ll hook y’all up with some privacy

[jellyfishdirigible]

ok I took a bit more than an hour, I have time blindness don’t @ me.

Step one, download and install Firefox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

It will ask if you want to import all your bookmarks and saved passwords from your current browser/s. Do that. It will also ask if you want to make it your default browser. Do that too.

You will be given the option to create an account, but it’s not mandatory. It’s just a convenience service if you want to access your bookmarks and saved passwords on different devices.

Firefox has a load of built-in privacy protections but we’re going to install some addons to make it EVEN BETTER. Don’t worry they’re all free and once you’ve installed them you don’t have to think about them again.

First, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials. Firefox does still set your default search engine to Google, we don’t want that. You could manually change it but the Duck Duck Go addon gives you some tracker blocking, encryption, private searching, all set up and ready to go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox

Next you need an ad blocker. ABP went stupid, so here’s uBlock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Do you use farcebook or any related product like instagram? Facebook Container automatically puts those in a little quarantine pen so they can’t follow you around and spy on what else you’re doing

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

If you have multiple accounts (eg. work/school, family, public, personal, private) you can use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to manage them and keep their footprints separate

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere are published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and those people are serious as a heart attack when it comes to online privacy.

Privacy Badger sends a do not track signal, and also breaks link tracking by sites like facebook, twitter, etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17

HTTPS Everywhere is… ok there’s a lot to explain here, and we’re already longposting so just, every time you connect to any page it makes it more secure.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

If you want to learn a bit about how this works and why it’s good to have, might as well start with the HTTPS page on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

You could stop here, that’s pretty good. But you can do more. You could install NoScript. A big warning with this one, it can break half the internet. It’s a LOT more user friendly than it used to be but if you can’t figure shit out by fucking around you should probably skip it. It blocks scripts from running without permission, protecting you from drive-by scripts that give your computer herpes, but also sometimes protecting you from script-heavy sites working at all.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Lastly an honourable mention for Ghostery. Ghostery has been a solid privacy addon for years, and now has adblocking powers. Honestly I haven’t used it in ages, a long time ago it conflicted with something else I deemed more important so I removed it and I never got around to picking it back up, but it has a great reputation and is trusted by a lot of people who I trust.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

Now, this all only covers your browser activity, which is a lot but you will still need to manually adjust privacy settings on your google/gmail/youtube account/s if you have any, your facebook/instagram account/s if you have any, and your actual gotdamn operating system if you use windows. I know it seems like a lot of effort, I’m a lazy bitch too, but it’s very set-and-forget, you only need to do it once, and then just review it a couple of times a year.

Here’s some stuff about Windows 10 privacy settings

https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/windows-privacy-settings/

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/5-privacy-settings-to-change-in-windows-10/

And some stuff about google privacy settings

https://mashable.com/article/google-privacy-setting-you-should-enable-now/

And some stuff about facebook privacy settings

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/facebook-privacy-settings-2939307

And here’s an honest explanation of what a VPN really does and does not do, why you don’t actually need one, and the few real reasons you might ever want one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

And  a bit about password managers

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-password-managers-for-2020/

This is by no means the limit of the steps you can take to secure your online privacy, if you want to go deeper you definitely can. But if you don’t want to or don’t have the time or aren’t very technically minded, this will still put you way ahead of the pack. It won’t make you The Most Private but it will make you Much More Private Than Most, and it should take you less than an hour or two, depending on how many accounts you have on predatory datenkraken sites.

Now go hide your panties from the evil empire.

[teratocybernetics]

i will add that ublock’s ‘cosmetic filtering’ (the little eye on their icon menu) is on by default & can donk up small but seemingly unconnected things, and you can turn it off with no real problem I’ve found yet

[kiwilemonteanonsense]

I will add that making these changes does more than improve your online privacy. I had several computers get absolutely wrecked by walware when I was younger, but the second I started using NoScript, that issue completely stopped. This was about ten years ago. There are two caveats: you need to develop a good sense of which domains to allow scripts from, and any content creators you like won’t get any ad revenue from you, so it would be nice if you could support them in other ways like Patreon.

[cyberpriestess]

it’s now 2023 and there’s updates to be had:

HTTPS Everywhere is built into firefox now (I believe it’s a setting under Privacy and Security)

Multi-Account Containers are built into firefox (and Facebook Container is no longer needed with dFPI which is on by default and gives each website its own cookie jar, stopping them tracking you across other sites)

DDG is still the go-to privacy search engine but there’s some caution over it and other privacy-focused search engines that are too long for this already long post

browser fingerprinting is a serious attack vector (sites can detect information about your browser and OS and use that to identify you as a unique individual). this can sometimes include extensions - on chrome it’s easy to detect a ton of commonly used extensions. on firefox there’s conflicting information, especially as it randomises the ID of extensions, but the general consensus is to use as few extensions as possible to mitigate fingerprinting chance and to reduce attack surface if you care about security.

for the average privacy-concerned user is would recommend the following and only the following: uBlock Origin (it’s still good) and Canvasblocker (can block scripts and prevent some easy fingerprinting methods). then set your browser to strict (in preferences under Security and Privacy)

for the more concerned user, there’s Tor Browser (special Firefox designed to work with TOR). this is NOT an everyday browser. also NEVER change ANY of its settings if you do use it. there’s also Librewolf ! a Firefox fork that has some extra hardening and also has ResistFingerprinting on by default (this replaces Canvasblocker and additionally forces a certain window size and light mode to try make all users look the same). I use RFP on at least one browser profile but the point with RFP is NEVER modify it just like TOR.

idk much about the win10 options as I use linux but I would suggest doing your own research before committing (and I would also suggest verifying my post as well ! fact checking is important)

there’s probably some other things but the key point is that malicious actors like Google will continually evolve their methods and as such our solutions will continuously evolve to match as we learn more.

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[sailormouthbluebirdheart]

Heed the call

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[no-one2ne1]

Omg this is insane 😳😳

[tidewalker77]

Crazy strength!!!

[thewitchywench]

The core muscles on the lady on the bottom have to be unbelievable.

[twonshawn]

Holykafuco Batman

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[kinkysista6969]

🤣🤣my man could not work from home cuz this would be me🤷🏽‍♀️

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[sexynakedblackguy]

[saudisociety]

One day I’ll care.. not today tho

[be-artistic-deactivated20230306]

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[alwaysbewoke]

links within this thread:

https://t.co/87kYpZ4LJr

http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b015-i208

https://t.co/FpxrGYd5dJ

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-17/curious-origins-irish-slaves-myth

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2018/0316/No-the-Irish-were-not-slaves-in-the-Americas

https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.xhxaucbu2

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html

in addition to this great thread, i recommend reading “how the irish became white” by noel ignatiev.  i do expect a lot of fighting against these facts because these lies and myth are so ingrained and now have become a part of the community and the sense of self and pride of irish people. 

[alwaysbewoke]

Happy St Patrick’s Day

[alwaysbewoke]

It’s that time of year again. Time to make white people mad with the truth and facts.

[blacklacerabbit]

In Bondage 🖤⛓